Anarchists, an'ahr kists, a revolutionary sect or party, setting forth, as the social ideal, the extreme form of individual freedom, holding that all government is injurious and immoral, that the destruction of every social form now existing must be the first step to the creation of a new and just society. The anarchists first assumed independent importance about 1872, when they separated from the Social Democrats. Their principal journals have been La Revolte (Paris), the Freiheit (New York), Liberty (Boston) and the Anarchist (London). The Anarchists in America have accomplished little, though they maintain an active propaganda.